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by mintplant 3650 days ago
> Sync goals was probably to make their ad share revenue grow as now you are a logged in user.

No, it was in response to user feedback. The portion of the userbase that wanted it to just work like a traditional account system was greater than the portion that wanted to mess around with syncing codes. I don't know where you got the idea that this change had anything to do with ads.